Messages in this thread | | | From | Dave Cinege <> | Subject | Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list. | Date | Wed, 30 Oct 2002 04:55:21 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 30 October 2002 3:51, Erik Andersen wrote:
Erik,
> Both formats are simple. But cpio is simpler.
untar runs about 5K...same as 'un-cpio'. No differece there. But not from userland. Tar is used en masse, cpio isn't. It's the only reason to use tar over cpio...I feel it's a good one.
Erik
#1 I'll be reviewing initramfs and adding loading images from the kernel support. I don't deny it's a good thing to have.
#2 My main complaint is Jeff said if initramfs goes in initrd comes out. initrd should not come out. Let me clarify: the abilty of the bootloader to load images/archives for the kernel to extract should not come out.
My patch is the best of both because, it re-writes initrd properly within a sane framework. (Not to mention I scrubed the hell out of do_mounts.)
If you want to get rid of all the backwards compatible stuff (IE identifing and loading raw images to /dev/ram0, pivoting to /initrd) that's fine with me. The code is layed out now so I can litterally cut it out 10K of that junk in 30 seconds. Better yet I can ifdef it for the poor souls that still need it.
Dave
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